On Wednesday 03 May 2006 03:59pm, Christian Reiter wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am wondering what's the best way to backup a running xen-domU.
>
> I've just tried to simply copy the file of a file-backed domU while it
> was running.
> Surprisingly that was succesful, i didn't even get a filesystem error....
That doesn't surprise me.
> But i think that is not a reliable way for production servers.
I think you are right about that :) .
> What would you recommend to get reliable disaster recovery backups
> of file-backed as well as partition-backed (raw partition or lvm
> volumes) vms?
I would use LVM to provide the storage and then take a snapshot ("lvcreate
-s") in dom0 and back that up.
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